Information Technology and Organizational Effectiveness: Re-evaluation of the Radical Transformations 1980-2010

The idea of this paper is to review and summarize the complex interplay between information technology (IT) and organization in stages that impacted radically both the organizational structure and the evolution of effectiveness and economic performance. We could identify five major stages where the underlying technology, the typical organizational structure, and the criteria of performance or business success changed, increasing the complexity of evaluation models proposed. It seemed that the effectiveness impacts of IT escalated from the individual to the team level, from the organizational to the virtual ecosystem level, and from the corporate to the national or global level. Therefore, the IT productivity paradox could not be refuted until 2003.Cilj članka je, da predstavi in povzame zapleteno interakcijo med informacijsko tehnologijo in organizacijo, s poudarkom na stopnjah, ki so močno vplivale tako na organizacijsko strukturo kot na razvoj učinkovitosti in ekonomičnosti. Avtor opredeli 5 pomembnih stopenj, ko so se spremenili tehnologija, tipična organizacijska struktura in kriteriji za učinkovitost organizacije. Kaže, da je se je učinkovitost zaradi vpliva informacijske tehnologije stopnjevala od individualne do teamske ravni, od organizacijske do ravni virtualnega ekosistema in od korporativne ravni do nacionalne in globalne. Tako znani paradoks produktivnosti ni mogel biti ovržen do leta 2003